Chance Quote by Theodore Bikel Download Open image “I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.” — Theodore Bikel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chance Determined Fighting Language
If you will tell me to have a conversation in Yiddish, I won't, unfortunately know how to do it. But I will understand a… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For… — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax,… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I love the Jews. 1. Yiddish is awesome. 2. Ive never met one who pushed their religion on me. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
“Something always happened, you see. A Yiddish song on Hanukkah, a British rabbi's prayer on the radio, some kindness on a train or in… — Edith Hahn Beer a Copy Share Image
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
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The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
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I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
